i just made myself a new KEYCHAIN!

[Subzer0]

i putting in my cpu today and i have a shim to protect the cpu,so i put it together and fired it up,man did it fire up alright! a smell of plastic/glue and maybe the arctic silver! anyway when i pulled it back down i saw the damn shim had come out of place and must ve shorted out the chip
the sticker underneath was what causes the smell and it shows its been cooked.so im pretty sure warranty wont cover that so ill have to save for a new chip, should i stay with the AXIA 1.2?

[zoopa_man]

Awww man. Sorry for your loss. I think I toasted my GeForce 2 mx 400 card trying to put a stupid BLORB on it. Dam you thermaltake

[UnseenMenace]

A moment of silence please, for the death of another great CPU.

[Hoot]

A moment of silence...

Learn from your mistakes, get up and continue moving forward.

"The man who forgets his past is condemned to relive it."
-unknown-

Hoot

[el]

man that is horrible but you should still try and RMA it to AMD and they will probably hook you up since you never really OC it. don't mention teh shim or the overclocking adn they might do it!!!

[rugby]

This is exactly why I think I"ll stick with the cheapest Durons I can find. I burnt up 2 tbirds and my wife was gonna kill me if I spent the money for another tbird. I could swing 40 bucks for the duron however with shipping.


ALthough now that 1ghz tbird are 80 bucks I maybe should have waited and gotten one of those.....

[Hoot]

Get the 600 Duron. Goes 900 @ 1.75V and a Gig at 1.85

Hoot

[ManOfKnight]

i tip my 40 for you my homey...everytime a chip burns, AMD stock goes up

[VecchK]

Really? I thought every time a chip burnt up an angel got its wings... or maybe that was something else. :)

[silent bob]

You have officially made it into the club I smoked my 1gig three weeks ago so... congrats ..I mean BOO HOO try to RMA that is what I am going to try to do

[eobard]

alisport (Jul 18, 2001 08:20 a.m.):
i putting in my cpu today and i have a shim to protect the cpu,so i put it together and fired it up,man did it fire up alright! a smell of plastic/glue and maybe the arctic silver! anyway when i pulled it back down i saw the damn shim had come out of place and must ve shorted out the chip
the sticker underneath was what causes the smell and it shows its been cooked.so im pretty sure warranty wont cover that so ill have to save for a new chip, should i stay with the AXIA 1.2?

That's unfortunate but I think you'll find you haven't made a new keychain. I know this isn't what your post is really about but I've tried to turn a CPU into a keychain just this week. I have a whole snot full of old 8088 and 80286 CPUs sitting in a jar here. One of those 80286 was layed out physically like a 80486 or pentium chip, same material in the casing with the golden pins underneath instead of a black plastic case with silver pins coming out from the side and wraping around to the bottom of the chip. Its the only 80286 that I've ever seen like that. I needed a new keychain weight so I decided to snap off the pins and drill a hole through the chip for the key ring. The pins came off fine but I could only scratch the surface of the chip. I gave it to my friend who's a machinist. He took it to work to use his "high powered" tools to drill it. He used high-speed steel bits and even carbide bits. All he managed to do was dull the bits and wear a very shallow trough into the surface of the chip. He tried on both sides and couldn't get through! As soon as I can work around a video capture / screen shot problem I'll post the visual proof. Its pretty amazing that a 1984 technology computer chip can defeat a shop full of modern tools. Perhaps we should start making car bodies from old CPUs for safety.

Anyway, you may have destroyed your chip but I think you'll find you're still a long way from a keychain.